The actor will be seen playing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the biopic Los Angeles: Actor Ashton Kutcher learnt the circuitry work including soldering motherboards to prepare for his role in ...

What do you do when your motherboard is covered in electrolytic grime, has damaged pads and traces that are falling apart? You call [RetroGameModz] to work their magic with epoxy and solder. While ...

Ok, so this question really isn't as dumb as it sounds... -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>What I ...

Heat up that iron, you’re going to want to try this one: [Hugatry] is adding hardware to his laptop by tapping into the i2c lines on the memory module. We love this because the penalty for borking ...

Now we've got a product that looks somewhat akin to what you receive in the box. The larger components have been machine-fed on to the mainboard and been inserted ready for wave soldering. Optical ...

Once the motherboards have been moved to the factory's manual insertion floor, they're unpacked and placed on a conveyor belt that forms the next stage of the production line. It’s here that lines of ...

During Computex, I was offered a chance to go see how a motherboard is actually produced. GIGABYTE invited me and other media on a trip to see one of their three factories. We were bused off to the ...